comparative
Definition of comparative:
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part of speech: adjective
Estimated by comparing with something else: not positive or absolute: ( gram.) expressing more.
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part of speech: adjective
Not positive or absolute; estimated by comparison; having the power of comparing; in gram., an adjective inflected, expressing more or less.
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part of speech: adverb
Comparatively.
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Common misspellings:
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- comarative (0.6%)
- compaired (0.3%)
- comparatible (0.6%)
- competative (0.3%)
- comparritive (0.6%)
- comparitve (1.2%)
- compairitive (0.6%)
- compartive (8.5%)
- comparitave (0.6%)
- comperative (3.5%)
- comparabtive (0.6%)
- compatative (0.3%)
- compartaive (0.6%)
- comparitive (75.3%)
- comaprative (0.6%)
- comparitvie (0.6%)
- compedative (0.9%)
- comparitable (0.6%)
- compartiave (0.6%)
- comparaitve (0.6%)
- companrative (0.6%)
- comparatve (0.9%)
- comparetire (0.6%)
- comparitaive (0.6%)
Usage examples for comparative:
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Doctor Thorne has, I believe, been the most popular book that I have written,- if I may take the sale as a proof of comparative popularity.
"Autobiography of Anthony Trollope" – Anthony Trollope -
Twelve of the bottles, however, remained entire, so that the Bell Rock may be said to have been transformed, even at that date, from a point of destruction into a place of comparative safety.
"The Lighthouse" – Robert Ballantyne -
I replied that in twelve months a large American army was to be expected in France, and that this army would be organized with comparative ease.
"My Three Years in America" – Johann Heinrich Andreas Hermann Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff
